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Enable debugging in EPiServer Scheduler

Have you ever wanted the Scheduler to log to a file for debugging purposes? Here is a way for enabling it.

We had a problem with the EPiServer Scheduler and we wanted to enable logging for it. Here is a step by step procedure for how to do this. 

Go to local services:

Local services

 

Find the EPiServer Scheduler Service in the list, right click and select Properties:

Servies overview

 

Stop the service, set the Start parameters to the following: SVCDEBUG path_to_log_file, then start the service again:

Servie properties

 

Then go to the path you entered(it must be a folder that exits on the server). There you will see the log file.

explorer

 

The log file will look like this:

Output

A big thanks to Steve Celius for showing us how this could be done!